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Reviewer: James Jeffery Author: John Owen (edited by Brian G. Hedges) Publisher: Reformation Heritage Books Year: 2016 Whether you are someone who has walked with Jesus for many years or you are new […]
The title of this work comes from Robert Lowry’s hymn Low in the Grave He Lay (the lyrics are better than the grammar), and the content is an exposition of 1 Corinthians […]
C. S. Lewis, The Reading Life, edited by David C. Downing and Michael G. Maudlin, London: William Collins, 2019. By the age of ten, C. S. Lewis had read Milton’s […]
There are fewer sadder events in life than a stillbirth. This is a book designed to convey to children that God is always good in every situation (Psalm 100:5). Jonathan […]
Wheaton: Crossway, 2020 In recent years, there have been sweeping changes in the way personal identity, sexuality and politics have been thought about in Western culture. What was considered common […]
Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2016 John Newton once commented: ‘Some Christians are called upon to endure a disproportionate amount of suffering.’ Joni is one such Christian, as a quadriplegic with cancer […]
London: IVP, Fourth Edition, 2020. The Preface to this fourth edition of The Story of the Church contains a short biography of A. M. Renwick, who wrote the first edition […]
New York: HarperCollins, 2002 This would qualify as one of the saddest, most appalling stories I have ever come across concerning the whole issue of transgenderism. It tells of twin […]
Wheaton, IL: Crossway, 2020 I was given this book recently for Christmas, but wasn’t really looking forward to reading it. ‘Not another book on leadership!’ I cynically thought to myself. […]
Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 2018 Throughout much of 1554 and 1555 Calvin was preaching on the Pastoral Epistles, and so preached 31 sermons on 2 Timothy. Alas, the sermon on […]
Illinois: Tyndale Momentum, 2017 On 8 June 1972 Kim’s life changed when South Vietnamese planes dropped napalm on fleeing villagers. Kim was nine years when she endured the terrible burning […]
Stanhope Gardens: Eider Books, 2020 Born in 1933, Emily Ward has seen much over her long life. She was not born into a Christian family, but a diligent assistant minister, […]
Inter-Varsity Press, 2014 This is a book I only discovered recently—based on the recommendation of a friend—who suggested that I’d really like it. He was not wrong. But it also […]
Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 2019 This is a helpful work on that most intriguing work, the book of Ecclesiastes, although it is neither a commentary nor a series of sermons. […]
Bellingham: Lexham Press, 2020 Abraham Kuyper (1837-1920) is known as a former Prime Minister of the Netherlands, one who encouraged the growth of Christian schools, and who developed views on […]
Sydney: Matthias Media, 2019 Ten essayists have put together this most engaging tribute to the preaching, pastoring, and evangelistic work of Simon Manchester, who served as the senior minister at […]